CRISP SALAD WORKS offers free salad to hospital workers

The fight against the coronavirus is proceeding globally. I heard about some restaurants abroad that offer free meals or discount to healthcare workers. I thought it a good idea and was very impressed by their solidarity. Recently, I happened to know that a restaurant chain in Tokyo, CRISP SALAD WORKS, also offers a similar kind of service. From March 25, free salad has been provided to all the healthcare and hospital workers (doctors, nurses, clerks, cleaning staff, etc.) at all the 14 stores in Tokyo. Each of them can have one free menu item per day. At first, they needed to select salad they wanted and a store to pick it up through the dedicated app, come to the store and show their ID card to the restaurant staff. According to CRISP SALAD WORKS’ website, this take-out service was changed to direct delivery to hospitals on March 30 as many healthcare workers were too busy to come.

As the name implies, CRISP SALAD WORKS specializes in salad. Their website (https://www.crisp.co.jp/) is in both Japanese and English, and you can see a big bowl of delicious-looking salad. Among their signature salads, there is one vegan option that contains romaine lettuce, roasted tofu, black beans, grilled corn, red cabbage, walnuts, sunflower seeds, and lemon tahini. It sounds very nutritious. Alternatively, you can have custom salad by combining one of three vegan bases and up to four toppings. There are ten kinds of dressing, and five of them are vegan. If I have a chance to go to Tokyo after the corona pandemic calms down, I’d like to visit one of their stores. Now they provide only takeout and delivery service to prevent infection of the coronavirus. You cannot eat inside the stores.